SpaceX recovery vessel
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A SpaceX recovery vessel is a specialized ship used by SpaceX to locate, retrieve, and transport spacecraft components such as Dragon capsules and rocket fairings after ocean splashdowns.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SpaceX drone ship | 1 |
| SpaceX drone ships | 1 |
| SpaceX recovery ship | 1 |
| SpaceX recovery team | 1 |
| SpaceX recovery vessel canonical | 1 |
| SpaceX recovery vessel GO Navigator | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11804737 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SpaceX recovery vessel Context triple: [CRS-20, reentryRecovery, SpaceX recovery vessel]
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A.
Colossus refueling platform
The Colossus refueling platform is a massive, ocean-based fueling and repair station on the planet Castilon that serves as the primary locale for pilots, mechanics, and spies in the Star Wars Resistance animated series.
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B.
Crew Dragon
Crew Dragon is SpaceX’s reusable, human-rated spacecraft designed to transport astronauts and cargo to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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C.
Serna-class landing craft
The Serna-class landing craft is a Russian Navy amphibious vessel class designed for high-speed transport and beach landing of troops, vehicles, and equipment, notably used within formations such as the Caspian Flotilla.
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D.
Starship spacecraft
The Starship spacecraft is SpaceX’s fully reusable second-stage vehicle designed for deep-space missions, including crewed flights to the Moon and Mars, and high-capacity satellite deployment.
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E.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SpaceX recovery vessel Target entity description: A SpaceX recovery vessel is a specialized ship used by SpaceX to locate, retrieve, and transport spacecraft components such as Dragon capsules and rocket fairings after ocean splashdowns.
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A.
Colossus refueling platform
The Colossus refueling platform is a massive, ocean-based fueling and repair station on the planet Castilon that serves as the primary locale for pilots, mechanics, and spies in the Star Wars Resistance animated series.
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B.
Crew Dragon
Crew Dragon is SpaceX’s reusable, human-rated spacecraft designed to transport astronauts and cargo to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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C.
Serna-class landing craft
The Serna-class landing craft is a Russian Navy amphibious vessel class designed for high-speed transport and beach landing of troops, vehicles, and equipment, notably used within formations such as the Caspian Flotilla.
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D.
Starship spacecraft
The Starship spacecraft is SpaceX’s fully reusable second-stage vehicle designed for deep-space missions, including crewed flights to the Moon and Mars, and high-capacity satellite deployment.
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E.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime vessel type
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spaceflight recovery asset ⓘ support ship ⓘ |
| basedNear |
Cape Canaveral, Florida
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linked to:
Cape Canaveral
Los Angeles, California ⓘ Port Canaveral, Florida ⓘ
linked to:
Port Canaveral
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| designedFor |
rapid turnaround of recovered hardware
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reuse of spacecraft components ⓘ safe handling of crewed spacecraft ⓘ |
| equippedWith |
cranes
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crew accommodations ⓘ medical facilities ⓘ navigation radar ⓘ recovery nets ⓘ satellite communications ⓘ small boats ⓘ tracking equipment ⓘ winches ⓘ |
| hasCrewType |
SpaceX engineers
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mariners ⓘ medical personnel ⓘ recovery technicians ⓘ |
| operatedFor | SpaceX launch operations ⓘ |
| operatingEnvironment |
Atlantic Ocean
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Gulf of Mexico ⓘ ocean ⓘ |
| ownedBy | SpaceX or SpaceX contractors ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
locate spacecraft after splashdown
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recover spacecraft after splashdown ⓘ transport recovered spacecraft components ⓘ |
| recovers |
Cargo Dragon capsules
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Crew Dragon capsules ⓘ Dragon spacecraft capsules ⓘ Falcon 9 payload fairings ⓘ Falcon Heavy payload fairings ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
SpaceX Dragon program
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SpaceX drone ship ⓘ
linked to:
SpaceX recovery vessel
SpaceX fairing recovery program ⓘ SpaceX human spaceflight operations ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
cargo resupply missions
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crewed missions ⓘ reentry and splashdown operations ⓘ satellite launch missions ⓘ |
| supportsPhase |
crew recovery
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hardware retrieval ⓘ post-landing operations ⓘ post-splashdown operations ⓘ spacecraft safing ⓘ |
| usedBy | SpaceX ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: SpaceX recovery vessel Description of subject: A SpaceX recovery vessel is a specialized ship used by SpaceX to locate, retrieve, and transport spacecraft components such as Dragon capsules and rocket fairings after ocean splashdowns.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SpaceX recovery vessel
linked to: SpaceX recovery vessel
linked to: SpaceX recovery vessel
linked to: SpaceX recovery vessel
linked to: SpaceX recovery vessel